Debbie Wiseman
One of the UK’s most successful female music ambassadors, Debbie Wiseman is in demand as a composer and conductor.
Her 200-plus film and television credits include WOLF HALL, WILDE, HAUNTED, WARRIORS, JUDGE JOHN DEED, TOM & VIV, ARSENE LUPIN, EDIE, TO OLIVIA, THE UNDECLARED WAR and FATHER BROWN.
Her albums Wolf Hall (2015), The Glorious Garden (2018), The Music of Kings and Queens (2021, celebrating the 95th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II) and Signature (2023) all reached no 1 in the UK Classical Chart.
Debbie has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards for WILDE and DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA and in 2025 was honoured with an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to Screen Composition. She was a nominee at the 44th annual Grammy Awards for her album WILDE STORIES. She has won a TRIC Award for THE GOOD GUYS and an RTS Award for WARRIORS. She was awarded the Gold Badge of Merit by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters in 2007. In March 2016 she was awarded the Best Composer, Drama award at the RTS West Awards and Best Original Composition for a TV Programme at the Music and Sound Awards, both for WOLF HALL.
Debbie is Classic FM’s Composer in Residence. She was voted the most popular living composer in Classic FM’s Hall of Fame 2022.
In October 2014 Debbie was Kirsty Young’s guest on Desert Island Discs.
Debbie was one of 11 composers chosen to compose music for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012 and composed the Overture and Finale music for the Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration in 2016.
In the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Debbie was awarded the OBE for services to music.
She was the official composer and musical director of the Platinum Jubilee Celebration at Windsor in May 2022.
Debbie was one of 12 composers commissioned to compose new music for the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Her two gospel Alleluias were first performed on 6 May 2023 at Westminster Abbey.
Her two albums released on Silva Screen Records in winter 2024 were both chart-toppers - JACK FROST (her second collaboration with Alan Titchmarsh) went to number 1 in the UK Classical Chart in week 1 of its release; and WOLF HALL: THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT (the soundtrack to the BBC TV series) topped the Amazon Soundtracks Chart.
In 2025 Debbie was given the gift of being Guest of Honour at the 25th World Soundtrack Awards, and an album of some of her landmark work was recorded by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Dirk Brossé specially for the event.
Debbie is President of Making Music UK and a patron of the charity Soundabout.